Kaya sat down and looked out onto the lake. She liked sitting her, it helped her think.

He couldn't do that! She thought. He wouldn't! Would he?

Kaya heard footsteps and she looked over her shoulder. "Why are you out of class?"

"I could ask you the same thing," Sasuke said. "You know Iruka-sensei was only joking around. He wants you to behave instead of running around like Naruto does. You should have seen what Naruto did to the Hokage faces."

Kaya looked up, on a high cliff over the Leaf Village was the four Hokage's faces carved out in the cliff. She didn't see anything wrong in particular. "What did Naruto do exactly?"

"He graffitied the Hokage faces with paint, and now he has to clean it all up."

Kaya laughed a little. "I almost feel sorry for the guy."

Sasuke smiled.

"So, why are you out of class?" Kaya asked him again.

"Iruka-sensei sent me to bring you back," Sasuke replied.

"Aw man!" Kaya complained. "I hate it at the Academy!"

"I know you do," Sasuke said, sitting down beside her. "But just think, tomorrow you can pass into the Genin ranks."

"Yeah," Kaya replied. "I can't wait to become a ninja."

"You're really keen on avenging your Clan."

Kaya didn't say anything for a few moments. Then she looked down into the water. "I wasn't even at the village when it happened."

Sasuke looked at her. "Where were you then?"

"I was out in the woods. My father bought me a couple of kunai's and I thought I could practice with them. When I came back after realizing it was getting dark, I saw people of my Clan, they were dead."

8 years ago.

"Wow! Thanks so much father!" Kaya exclaimed. "Can I go practice with these? To see if I can use them properly?"

"Sure," her father smiled. "But be careful you don't hurt yourself. And be back before dark."

Kaya nodded and ran out of the village and into the woods with her new kunai's. She stopped at a small clearing where she always practiced her fighting abilities.

She had been out all day, throwing her kunai's at targets and trying to split open small bits of wood. She looked up at the night sky, it was getting dark. She was supposed to be home by now!

Kaya picked up all her kunai's and ran through the forest back to her village.

She ran through the village gates and stopped, staring at three lifeless bodies. She walked over to them, they were friends of her parents. She crouched down and looked at all the blood and she looked into their eyes. Their gazes had been struck with fear before they died.

Kaya shivered, not just from the cold breeze, but because people lying on the ground dead wasn't a normal everyday thing. She closed their eyes and stood up, slowly walking around the village, she was scared.

She walked around a corner and saw her friend, Zora, he was dead to. His eyes were the same as the other people. She crouched beside him. "Zora, you were a great friend to me. I hope you find peace, wherever you're going now," she murmured and closed his eyes.

She stood up and ran towards her home, things were going terribly wrong, and she was scared her mother and father had suffered the same fate.

She reached her home and came to the front door, but she stopped when she heard voices.

"Where is she?!" a stranger's voice demanded. He sounded angry, yet his tone was flat almost as if he didn't care.

"Who?!" Kaya heard her mother whimper.

"You know 'who'," the guy's voice said again. "Tell us where we can find the demon child."

"She's not a demon!" Kaya's father growled. "She's an ordinary girl."

"If you say so," another voice growled, he actually sounded fiercely angry. "But tell us where she is and we might spare your lives."

Kaya nearly froze with shock. They were looking for her? Who were they?

She peered through the door and saw her mother and father cowering under a man wearing a black robe with a red symbol all over it. He had orange hair and his face was hidden in the shadows.

She noticed one of the strangers look over his shoulder to the door and she hid, hoping he didn't see her.

"Tell us where to find the girl!" the orange-haired guy growled.

"She's in the forest training!" Kaya's mother cried out.

"Thank you," he replied. "Kisame, finish them."

Kaya peered through the door again and saw a guy wearing the same robes as the orange-haired guy, he lifted a sword like thing that was wrapped with bandages. He looked like a fish or snake kind of guy with blue skin.

"You said you would spare us!" Kaya's father said.

"Sorry, deals expire all the time," the orange-haired guy smiled and the guy known to be Kisame swung down his sword and Kaya saw blood rise up from the throats of her parents and hit the floor. A few drops escaped through the door and hit Kaya's cheek. She gave a small yelp but shut her mouth quickly.

"Ah, it seems the girl has come to us," came the flat-toned guy's voice and all ten of the strangers walked to the door.

Kaya stepped backwards but tripped over on a stone and fell to the ground. The door opened and the people stepped out.

"Ah, the demon girl," the orange-haired guy said. "My name is Pain, what's your name?"

Kaya didn't reply.

"Are you scared of us because we killed your parents?" he smiled. "Poor child, you're the only one left of your Clan." He didn't sound like he felt sorry for her.

"Why did you kill everybody?" Kaya asked, her voice shaky although she summoned up her courage to speak.

"To find you," the guy with the flat-toned voice said. He had long black hair tied up in a ponytail and he wore the black robe with the red symbols just like all the others.

"Why?" Kaya asked.

"Because you're special," Pain said. "Very special."

"So you had to kill my friends and family just to find me," Kaya murmured, her voice no longer shaky, but tight with grief and fury.

Pain smiled. "Showing some courage, eh? We could have just come to find you but, well that wouldn't have been any fun now would it?"

"You call killing in cold-blood fun!?!?" Kaya growled, standing up. "You killed my parents, you killed my best friend! You killed my entire Clan, you bastards!"

"Don't talk to us like that!" Pain growled. "Or we'll kill you to!"

Kaya glared at him and suddenly felt some sort of power flow through her body and she felt her Chakra going berserk! Her Chakra became visible, it was orange and black and her hair was thrown all over the place. The people stepped back, surprised by how much was happening in front of them caused by a five-year-old.

"Is this the first death you've ever seen?" Kisame laughed. "This is what it means to be a ninja."

"Shut... UP!" Kaya snarled and her eyes turned from blue to red. She looked up at them, her voice became stronger and fiercer. "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!!!!!"

"Kisame, you take care of her," Pain said and the blue-guy nodded and ran at her.

Kaya jumped out of the way of his sword as it slammed against the ground where she had been heartbeats before and she did a couple spins before landing on her hands and feet, crouched like an animal. She got up and ran for Kisame and punched him in the face, sending him flying into the small pond.

Pain was shocked. "Sasori."

Sasori was a guy with red hair and he threw metal threads at Kaya. She dodged out of the way but the threads wrapped around her and they tightened up.

Pain looked at Kaya, her eyes shining red, her whole body shaking with fury.

"I got her," Sasori smiled.

"Don't get too over-confident," the guy with the flat-tone said.

"What do you mean?" Sasori asked but he was thrown backwards as Kaya snapped the threads and punched him in the gut.

Kaya glared at the guy with the ponytail, his eyes were red with three small symbols that looked like half on the Yin Yang sign. "You're next," she growled and took one step before racing towards him.

The guy stepped back and made some hand-signs. Kaya stopped and jumped back, cautious.

The guy was about to run at her but Pain called him back.

"Pain, what is it?" he asked.

"Wait a second," Pain replied and walked over to her. She growled at him and stepped back but he grabbed her shoulders. "I won't hurt you."

Kaya relaxed a little. Pain lifted the bottom of her shirt and saw an imprint on her stomach. He nodded and put a hand on her cheek. "We will leave her until she is older," he said to his followers.

"But, what if she restores her Clan before then-"

"She won't," Pain looked at her. Kaya's eyes turned blue again and she was panting, holding her heart, she was covered in dirt and she had scratches on her arms. "We will leave her."

Kaya looked at him with anger in her eyes.

"We will fight again one day," Pain said to Kaya.

Kaya nodded. "And then I will kill you for what you did to my Clan."

Pain smiled. "Remember, if you do not come after us, we will come after you when you are ready. Know us as the Akatsuki." Pain turned to his followers. "Let's go."

Pain and the rest of the group took off and left the village. Kaya slowly walked over to the door and went inside the house. She looked down at her dead parents, covered in blood from a slice to the neck. She fell to her knees, her fists clenched. "Forgive me mother, father. If I was stronger I would have been able to save you. But I promise that I will avenge the Clan. I promise that I will bring down every last member of the Akatsuki when I am stronger."

Kaya got up and walked out, then she left the village, she couldn't stay there. She had to find another village in her region.

She had walked for a few days non-stop and she was exhausted, hungry and freezing. Up ahead she saw giant gates and she walked a little further before her legs gave way and she collapsed onto the ground in front of the village guards. She woke up a week later in hospital at the Leaf Village. From then on, she had stayed at the village and went to the Academy to train as a ninja so that one day she could avenge her Clan. That was her goal, and nothing was going to prevent her dream from becoming a reality.